Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications Frank X. Shaw said on the official Microsoft blog:
But as Android owners know, that platform is complicated enough without adding another skin built around another metaphor
Whose simple translation would be:
But as Android users know, this platform is complicated enough without adding another skin built around another metaphor.
To which I wonder, Is Android really complicated or complex? ...
Many will wonder, what is this about now? The point is that Facebook has launched an application for Android called Facebook Home, which in my modest opinion has been that 'Facebook Phone' that many anticipated a few months ago, it happens that Microsoft claims that this app is a "copy?" Windows Phone 7.5 (from 2 years ago).
But getting back to the point Do you think Android is complicated?
Although whoever writes you is not fortunate enough to have an Android device, I have read a lot about it and I have had several devices with this system in my hands to test it thoroughly, either tablets or smartphones. Personally, I find the system intuitive, with nothing or little (not to be absolute) to envy iOS, and if we add to this all the customization options (integrated into the OS or added by third-party apps) ... well, maybe it's more just to change the adjective used by Shaw "complicated" for a more chord like "flexible".
The point (as I think) is that Microsoft is concerned about losing the market share that Windows Phone has even more, since it is no secret that in terms of sale of electronics (specifically the various computers that have or will have their OS for mobile devices) Windows Phone has not had much impact on the market, and even more ... Android continues to be the leader in several aspects, in fact we consider it here the OpenSource 2011. Note that from 2011 to here Android has gained a lot of ground even in a market other than smartphones, either because of the 'union' of ubuntu-android, for the project One Laptop per ChildAs well as Mini TV Box (among others).
All this leads us to ask ourselves something that more than a question can be almost an affirmation, Will Android be the little robot that will win our battle?
Anyway, there is still more fabric to cut and that is precisely why I leave it there, I know that many of you will be able to give a more than authorized opinion on the matter 😉
regards
Well, it would be better to win the battle with the "Big Versions of Linux" but the truth is, android carries the Linux banner very well, since more people want to encourage themselves to meet those Big Versions and see the true benefits.
Complicated: it is not.
Customizable: from the beginning without the need to root it, as in other cell phones.
And something that is very good to me is that he inherits something that he inherits from his older brothers, which is the community wanting to help and develop. That my dear, there is not in the other cell phones. Long live Android and Linux
Considering that the phone I have is my first Android, I have not tried anything easier at the moment. However, considering the lawsuit that Microsoft has brought against Google for the dominant position of Android (according to the news, up to 90% in some areas), this type of signaling is understandable. It just reflects the "desperate" situation of a manufacturer that has created something good (the truth is I have tried WP and it works very well, in fact I prefer it to iOS), but in the end it does not take off.
By the way, if you haven't read it online, here is the news, more detailed: http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/03/31/navegante/1301563635.html
The truth is that in MS they do not have a drop of shame, look at talking about a dominant position, a monopoly and the complexity of the systems, what you have to put up with these days ...
If the guy thinks that Android is "Complicated", surely he has not used the windows phone OS well, it is disgustingly unintuitive, nor do I want it for free.
The truth is, I'm not a Microsoft fan but I don't agree with you my mother and my uncle have Nokias Lumnia with WP 7.8 and 7.5 respectively and I like the OS, its appearance and how it is handled, it stands bright for a phone on tablets I don't know I have never touched any. What does bother me is that the credit (balance) that she puts in her does not last at all since the phone is always connected to the Internet because it forces you to put your email account to download the WhatsApp and immediately upload your contacts from the mail to the agenda and connects you with Facebook and is always updating the news of the contacts; You can't delete or deactivate the phone's account either because it doesn't have the option, you can only add more accounts. My uncle doesn't have that problem since he has a data plan.
In summary, the system or the appearance of it is not bad but it is a lot of plan with skill for the next one I told my mother to buy another cell phone with Androi that does not scrub you like Windows Phone does, my brother has a Samsung with Android and he has not complained about this in fact he loves it.
PS Sorry for misspellings and punctuation if there are any.
«What if it bothers me is that the credit (balance) that she puts in her does not last anything since the phone is always connected to the Internet because it forces you to put your email account to download the WhatsApp and it immediately charges your contacts from email to phonebook »
Well, Android does that, too ...
I personally have used android 2.2, 2.3, and several versions of 4 and something, I am an advanced user, of android, and a few days ago I bought a lumia, and I must say that the lumia is quite simple and functional, although it has niches that are disgusting , as an application for forums, such as tapatalk, ignoring that, for a normal user windows phone is simply something good and easy to use out box ...
I think I will retire my htc not because it is a bad computer, nor because android is worse than windows phone, it is that windows phone does almost everything I need and the battery lasts two days ... and with any smartphone the one that lasts only one day it's a titanic task
[I blame that for the design of android, which because it uses a virtual machine, wastes a lot of resources]
I agree with you .. It seems that Microsoft has made its Windows Mobile or Phone OS more intuitive after its version 7 and recent versions!
As for Android, it is on the right track, except for those malware behind so many apps!
Regards!
Well, I have an HTC Desire rooted with MIUI, the battery does not stand out for its duration, the performance is not remarkable either, I like the response time of apple devices with objective-c better, putting java in a smartphone is a barbarism.
I've been looking at the API and I didn't like it (I'm used to the beauty of APIs like Qt and Python), I made my ideas with meego (c ++ qt) but the android SDK is an explosion of interfaces and XML worked with Java, a resounding not on my part.
"Putting java on a smartphone is barbaric."
xD
"But the android SDK is an explosion of interfaces and XML worked with Java, a resounding no on my part."
Yeah !!!
+1
"Putting java on a smartphone is a barbarism and XML worked with Java, a resounding no on my part."
+10
I like Android but the problem it always has will be the battery consumption. Has anyone tried the other versions of Android that changed Java to Mono or another language? If you have, tell me how are you doing? battery, compatibility with Google Play apps, etc. etc.
Using android ss like using someone else's cell phone because you can't delete certain applications, you can't access certain parts of the disk, and you can't configure a lot of things. It seems terrible to me the fact of having to install a totally new desktop environment that works on the previous one to be able to change the color of the notification bar in addition to the process to obtain access as root and in the end it is only through a very limited application . To be used in a phone it seems great but terrible as SO. And the updates ... please don't even name them
Once you get the root of the terminal (which can be done with at least 98% of terminals with Android), changing what you want is a matter of installing the ROM you like, as long as there are them for the terminal in question (what which is safe in the vast majority of terminals, but there may be exceptions).
KZ:
Unity is really useful? Is all the power of KDE justified? Debian, does it really suck?
Except for the last question, which we know your answer to be effectively and objectively true, it all depends on the eye of the beholder.
In the case of Android and if that person was referring to the average NON-INFORMATIC user then what he says is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, from every point of view.
Of course, for us something like iPhone or Windows Phone is extremely limited and makes us feel claustrophobic and instead Android with all its power and flexibility makes us feel at home.
However Android is an immense platform that far exceeds the possibilities of use by people outside of computing, so something like iPhone or Windows Phone is more than enough for them.
I give you a very clear example.
In the new year a friend who lives in Finland came to visit his family. We are chatting and he happily shows me the cell phone he bought recently used, a Samsung Galaxy Note.
I ask him for permission to "play" with that bug and the skinny man opens his eyes in a moment and with a face of total disbelief he asks me: "And that !!? What did you do there, how did you do that !? »
The conversation that followed looks very much like this:
Me: «Boludo, it's part of your phone, bah, of the soft that it brings»
Him: «What !? I never saw that. "
You're screwing with me. It's the options menu within the main menu. »
"That never appeared to me."
«Sure, because you don't press the button to make it appear. Tell me something, what do you use from your Note, do you use it to call anything else !?
"No, well yes, obviously to call, messages and then use the internet browser and the other thing that I have on the screen."
(Clarification: "the other" is are the widgets and symlinks to applications that come by default on the main screen).
After talking for a while, the skinny man realizes that he had no idea of the power of his smartphone, of everything he could do, of the multiple menus and screens, of how to manage his applications, etc.
I clarify that the skinny man is 28 years old and he is not exactly an idiot but simply for him the computer and other devices are only means to an end, not the end in itself, so beyond the use that any illiterate has today in computer science he does not know much more because it simply bores him and he does not care.
So is Android difficult? Certainly for those who have no prior knowledge.
Is it useful for an end user? No, not really.
So you have to restrict the software and limit it according to the niche you are targeting: NOT NECESSARILY.
Microsoft and Apple use these reasons to support the restrictions they implement in their products - and that's why they suck for those of us who know a little more about the subject.
Android is an immense monster that allows us to make what we want with it, the problem is that smartphone vendors are not -or were- ideal for designing user interfaces - this is changing little by little.
Consequently, it is possible to create a simple and powerful user experience for an end-END user without restricting him in the use of the device and always leaving a door open so that he can discover the true power of his equipment whenever he wants.
Let's also remember: smartphone manufacturers are not especially macanuda, nice people who seek to create a better world, they only use Android because it is the free software available that they have at hand.
You contradict yourself, because the fact that Debian stinks you are seeing with your eye, not mine for example. I would also like to see a bit of objectivity in that comment. 😉
I'm still a symbian lover! It was enough for me and I had enough as SO the truth, to listen to music, navigate with opera mini and make calls, one does not need more.
Ah, well I thought that comment was pure sarcastic humor and that I could actually even use Debian xD
You are wrong as Elav says about Debian, it is your point of view. It is by no means an extended and correct idea.
I already knew that someone was going to fish.
You were trolled guys 😀
Lol, they left because of the troll comment and ignored everything
I clarify that I ignored your total lack of objectivity about Debian, I smoked the nonsense and kept reading until I get to the part where you say you play with your friend's bug. I think intimate situations should be left out.
HAHAHA !!!!
Clap-clap, awesome comment 😀
hahaha and what are these people going to say…. complicated?? my son who is only 5 years old handles it at will ... he even knows how to install games and everything, if this guy thinks it's complicated ... bill would have to see better who he hires 🙂
I think YES, Android is more difficult to use than Windows Phone and iOS, but it is not so bad.
In ios you have a single menu where you can access everything even to uninstall applications. On Windows Phone you also have a single very minimal foolproof menu where you can open applications.
In Android it is different, because before entering the main menu you have to go through the desktop, sometimes that is confusing for some novice users, even so much widget confuse it too. To uninstall applications you have to look for the option within settings, the handling of the image gallery in the applications is messy, and sometimes it is necessary to go through the file explorer to see what is inside. Some audio / video players when opening a file show you all the folders in the OS so that you can choose where the file you want to open is located, which is also complicated for a novice user because they will not know in which folder it is mount the SD card.
It is true Android can be more difficult (it is not that bad either), that makes it more customizable, but it is still my preferred system for mobile phones.
How it hurts Microsoft. LOL
Complicated? It seems that he did not know symbian (the easiest so of the pre android era) where he had to go searching / hacking applications out there, and the idea of market only existed in the gnu + linux distros. Android solved this, allowing you to install applications with one touch, without going with data cable, cds and pc suites as before. It does not allow an unprivileged user to view or modify system folders, like all * nix OS (and before it was worse in other mobile OS). What did the man wait, that we insert an SD and with an autorun we infect the entire system? we are not in windows xp
+100
Completely agree with you msx.
I particularly believe that it is not that this or that device is complicated or that a user without any advanced knowledge of computing cannot take full advantage of said device, it is simple information, both from the manufacturer to the distributor and from this to the user final ... but I am not referring to that information printed in the user manuals that accompany the device, but to interactivity. For example, here in Japan both children and adults (including the elderly), handle their devices with full knowledge of most of their functions and options, but this is due to the information offered in the sales establishments; When you go to one of these establishments to buy a Smartphone (no matter what OS it includes), you find a display of the most attractive options of said device and inviting you to discover the rest for yourself, in addition to this there is always a in charge of explaining to you in great detail everything you want to know and what not about your brand new purchase (and they are aware that more than 85% of customers never read the explanatory leaflets that are included with the device).
A curious detail is that the Japanese do not like Android very much when they appear, I have been able to observe that they buy the devices that include this OS guided by mass advertising but a week they return them or take them to recycling places.
It is true, for a novice user who only wants to navigate, play, see the weather where he is standing or in a city thousands of kilometers away (which the truth is I never knew why they do it, since it is enough to look up at the sky to know the weather, or that you will not be able to enjoy the heat of the Caribbean since it lives 5000 km ...) and all the gilada of Facebutt, twister, wasaaaaappp, and those things, a simple and intuitive interface is enough. But it's like having a Bugatti Veyron and not going over 60 km / h !!!
Paying such an amount of money for an incredible smartphone, just to do giladas, I don't see any point.
I love Android, since the platform allows me to modify it at will, modify the software as I please, and adapt it to my needs. What's more, I no longer need a notebook for my work, from my Defy + I can do whatever I want.
Anyway, as Don Gaara says, Android is complex. But inside, where advanced users like to put their hands.
My Android is not difficult at all ... And I have been using it for almost two years. Maybe because it has more options than WP7 / 8, iOS, BBOS and others, but in general I have not seen any of my acquaintances complain that it is complicated. Maybe one at most.
What I like about free software is the community, because the part of being able to see the code doesn't affect me since I don't know how to program 😛
It does not affect you directly to see the code but indirectly, thanks to this, the system becomes safer day by day, thanks to this we know that the software does not do strange things below the ground, thanks to this there are more and more distributions adapted to the needs of the people, the more plural the better, each one has different needs, thanks to that progress is made with great strides with pure cooperation and mutual support without putting so much commercial values on things.